This is the first post in a mini series about the Facebook Graph API.

About It
The Graph API offers information about users, groups, pages, applications, photos, videos, events and more. You submit a query to the API and it returns information in JSON format.

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If you consider the titles of articles and the names of web pages, you’ll realize they tell what the content is about. The titles don’t pose a question as some searchers tend to do.

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